Glenn L. Austin said: >Just so that people know, when you are booted from the installation >CD/DVS and are checking permissions on a drive, the permissions used >are those from the drive, not from the CD. > >The same is true if you check a second boot drive on a machine. Interestingly enough, the terminal command fs_usage on the DiskManagement process while having another book connected via firewire seems to verify this information. I stand corrected. Thanks. Are you aware if this was the case also with earlier versions of OS X? Like in Jaguar and the original Panther?